108 FRENCH IX VAN DIEMEN S LAND. 



wliich is equally honorable to those who confer it and 

 to those who are its objects." The news of the Peace 

 of Amiens (proclaimed 27 March, 1802,) which reached 

 Sydney a short time later, though it made intercourse 

 more j)leasant, " could r.ot," Peroa says, " increase the 

 kindness which the English disidayed towards us." A 

 fortnight latei' (May D) Flinders, who had completed a 

 thorough survey of the South Coast, arrived at Port 

 Jackson in the Investigator. 



Baudin, in the Gtoyraphe, had been some six weeks on 

 the South coast of New Holland, rediscovering and 

 renaming the discoveries already made by Flinders. His 

 crew were suffering terribly from scurvy, and his officers 

 urged his going to Port Jackson to recruit. Whether the 

 Commodore doubted the nature of his reception, or whether 

 the attractions of the Terre de Die men proved irresistible, 

 does not api)ear, but Baudin disregarded thoir ])rotests, 

 and to their intense chagrin, though winter was fast 

 approaching, headed his ship for the cold and stormy 

 south, and on 20th May once more cast anchor in 

 Adventure Bay. 'J'he state of his ship's conipany, how- 

 ever, was such that after only two days' stay he was 

 obliged to give orders to sail for Sydney. ]3affle<l by 

 contrary winds, battered by violent storms, with a crew 

 unable, fi'oni illness, to iiaudle the ship, it took him a 

 whole month to make the passage. On the 20th June 

 the Gi'oyrajjhe approached ihe heads of Port Jackson. 

 IS^ot only were they ajjprebensive respecting the faite of 

 the Naturaliste, and as to the nature of th«ir own 

 reception, but the condition of the crew was most 



FiimioiP, i.,23(i. deplorable. Flinders says "it was grievous to .see the 

 miserable condition to which both officers and cj*ew w^re 

 reduced by scurvy, there being, acoortUng to tlie Com- 

 mander's account, out of 170 men jDot more than 12 



ivron,i.,|.. 3!o. capable of doing their duty." Pcron quotes the Com- 

 mander's journal as stating that but four of the <irew, 

 including a midshipman, were able to keep the deck, and 

 he adds there was not one on board who was free 

 from liie disease. Many had died, and the surgeon, 

 jNI. Taillefer, gives a horrible description of the sutl'oriugs 



y^/mJ.i.. 313. (,f ti,p t.urvivors.* In fact, on arriving off Port Jackson 



* The pcurvy was at tlil.s pnriod tlic iicourgc of the nuvul.and 

 morcantilo marine, and pspwiiilly of diKcovcry exjM'difions. Van- 

 couver attributPb tlic high position England liud attaiuod, in a 



